Andrew Vanover Maggie Harbor Sierra Garwood Autumn Chapman Paige Shaffer Period 4 January 2011 Monument Valley

Location  Most deserts are located between 30 degrees north and 30 degrees south.  The equator is hot and 30 degrees north and 30 degrees south are close to the equator.

Location  Most deserts are hot.  Some deserts are cold.  Few deserts are cold most are hot.  Most are hot during the day and cold at night.

Climate  The deserts have extreme heat the temperature up to 100 degrees.  At night some deserts can fall in the temperature 40’s or 50’s deserts usually have 10 to 20 percent of humidity to trap temperature  So few trees and other vegetation to retain heat they cool down as the cool sets in as the sun rises. Hot desert

Climate  And winter are cool temp 5 degrees or below minimum -4 degrees. Dry desert

Precipitation  Some deserts get less than 100cm of rain per year.  It doesn’t rain much in the deserts.  The most it has rained is 30cm in a day

Precipitation  It rains few times a year  But when it rains it pours.  But it doesn’t stay long.

Plants have waxy skin. There are many different types of plants such as Saguaro, barrel cactus, old man cactus. And a Spoon plant. Spoon plant Old man plant

plants  Adaptations- there are many adaptations and plants. Such as the plants have to collect water from seeds when it rains, They have to adapt to live with very little rain. Fish hook cactus Aloe plant

Animals  There are a lot of animals that live in the desert such as 1. Dingo, 2. Fat Sand Rat 3. fox, 4.Gila Monster, 5.sidewinder. All of these animals are nocturnal because it is cool at night so they look for food at night. Fat sand rat Sidewinder

Animals  Adaptations- The Animals sleep during the hot day.  They also have to adapt to getting there water from seeds. Dingo Fennec fox

Tourist attractions  The Grand canyon national park 1,218,375 acres of Colorado.  Powell lake is 186 mi long and 1,960 mi of shoreline.  Powell lake is 2 nd largest.  It was manmade in the us. and 3 million visit the Powell lake. Grand Canyon

Tourist attractions  The hover damn is engineered mantel high above the Colorado river between Arizona and Nevada.  It took over 200 people to build it.  7,000 workers had extremely damage to there self's. Lake Powell

Agricultural  Hot deserts  Soil has abundant nutrients  Course, shallow, rocky and has no subsurface water  Plants are; thornscrub, cacti, velvet mesquite, acacia, palavers, and creosote bush  Cold deserts  Cold, heavy silt, and salty Cacti

Land Uses  Solar Dishes  Apaches used the land for mining, ranching, and farming Sun catcher Solar Dish

Environmental Concerns 28,000 sun catchers are going in flat-tailed horned lizard homes. 6,600 acres of the lizards homes are going to be constructed. Teresa agreed to buy 6,600 acres for the flat- tailed horned lizards. Flat-tailed horned lizards